The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program has partnered with the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization to offer a lecture series touching on topics from four of the library’s volumes.
The lectures in the Highlights from the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization series are free, but registration is required.
The following four lectures will be held as part of the series (all at 4 p.m. ET):
- Oct. 21—“Critical Events at the End of the Twentieth Century: 1973, 1977, 1989, and 1993” by Deborah Dash Moore, professor of history at the University of Michigan and editor-in-chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
- Wednesday, Oct. 28—“Voices of Jewish Women” by Elisheva Carlebach, the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society and director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, and Dash
- Nov. 11—“Secularism and Religious Tradition” by Zvi Gitelman, professor emeritus of political science and the Preston R. Tisch Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, and Todd Endelman, professor emeritus of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan
- Nov. 17—“Challenges to the Establishment of a Jewish State” by David Roskies, the Sol & Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Samuel Kassow, the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College